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Well I am 2 months into my first deal. I purchased 3 properties from a "Tired and worn down landlord". The original owner had multiple properties throughout the area he was looking to liquidate and step back from land...
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Zillow started trading today on the NASDAQ under the ticker Z. According to this article on TechCrunch, when the stock opened at $60, that represented a valuation of $1.6 billion - extremely frothy, given the $11.3 m...
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Hi, everyone! My name is Melinda, and I'm from the DFW area. I'm a newbie on this site as well as a newbie in real estate. I'm not a newbie in owning my own business, as I've owned 2 businesses in the last 10 years...
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Good reading
http://news.yahoo.com/s/bw/1106b4214044575550
As their holdings of unsold homes increase, Fannie and Freddie eventually will need to drop prices and turn to investors, analysts predict
The bottom line:...
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Last September, one of the original institutional investors in the housing-to-rent strategy, multi-billion hedge fund Och-Ziff called it quits on the landlord business. The reason: "the New York-based hedge fund is lo...
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Currently we live in a new construction single family home we purchased with a VA home loan. We will be moving with no intention to move back into this home. With 7 years left of the military we would like to start ...
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I picked up this #BRRRR/househack project in THE FAN in Richmond, Va it was being advertised on Craigslist for sale by owner. It has a BUNCH of deferred maintenance and the previous owner smoked inside and had a cat b...
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I purchased a HOA foreclosed property through our counties judicial online auction in March of 2019. A certificate of title was subsequently issued to my name and I am the sole title holder on record. Said title is al...
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Is anyone else running into trouble getting conventional financing? Just went to close on a deal that was put on hold for about a month due to the virus and I am being told no one is lending. This is in Little Rock,...
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Hello experts, I and a couple are looking to invest in a rental property in Austin. As we are first time investors, I was hoping if the community would help and advise us with the questions below: 1. Is this the right...